Global Health Promotion

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over their health through actions that address the multi-level and complex determinants of health at global, community and individual levels. It covers a wide range of behavioral, social, and environmental interventions that are designed to benefit and protect individual health and quality of life by addressing and preventing the root causes of ill health, not just focusing on treatment and cure. This course introduces the purpose, underpinning theories and methods of international health promotion, and hands-on opportunity to apply this knowledge in the design and evaluation of health promotion activities. Learning Outcomes By the end of this course, students should be able to: 1. Critically review theories and models that inform health promotion practice 2. Understand the broad range of health promotion strategies and the contexts in which they might be applied, including multimedia and social media campaigns, community engagement and community media (theater, psycho drama), behavioral insights, peer education, social marketing, healthy settings, social/media, local and policy advocacy, and healthy public policy or workplace programming 3. Apply health promotion theories and best practices when designing health promotion strategies and interventions targeted at individual, community and/or population levels 4. Recognize key steps in planning, implementing, and evaluating health promotion interventions to enable transfer and scale-up